"We would expect that amendment to come back to the Commons next week.
The same afternoon, Chris Dodd, after refusing for weeks to allow the Brown-Kaufman amendment to come up, suddenly cleared the way for a snap vote.
Because of Senate rules and the current state of debate on the Sarbanes bill, Mr. Levin needs to get approval from Republicans for his amendment to come up for a vote, according to Senate leaders.
Polls have generally found that just more than half of the citizens surveyed supported same-sex marriage, but about the same number wanted the constitutional amendment to come before voters.
It took almost 200 years and a fourth assassination for the 25th Amendment to come about, in spite of sixteen instances with no vice presidents for the remainder of a president's term.
None of those amendments was expected to come up for a vote in the Senate.
DeMint spoke shortly before Midnight and said that Democratic leaders had told him his amendments were likely to come up between two and four a.m. Jim Manley, a spokesman for Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid (D-Nev ., saiD-Nev .had every intention of proceeding through the night.
In the late 20th century, people took to the streets in nonviolent civil disobedience because the stuff they had been guaranteed by the 14th Amendment had yet to come to fruition.
The reforms would require a string of constitutional amendments and are likely to come under fire from established parties, which could have their power eroded by the changes.
—President Barack Obama "This is an attack on democracy itself, on the ability, as [Congresswoman Giffords] said in that reading of the First Amendment, to peaceably assemble, to come together to talk to one another".
